Tried out the "beginners" hd install from ext2 /usr/local/cooker for the first time. 1) it skipped mouse config (which was good as generic PS/2 w/ emulation does not cause my Intellipoint wheel mouse to die at x configuration). I did have to run mouseconfig after booting into Mandrake. This was not a problem because the mouse worked OK as a two button mouse. 2) it skipped keyboard config 3) named my dos partitions dos_C and dos_D. Fstab entries were made, but no mount points. I had to make fstab entry for /usr/local (install path). Maybe add comment here to: "right click on parition to name". I deleted and changed the sizes of several partitions, rebooted and continued. Maybe "reboot" button for this event instead of "ctrl-alt-delete". 3) chose the 645/2763 package selection without looking at what it would install (a beginner wouldn't understand much of the packages anyway) and this gave me a very good workstation configuration. Just had to add ppp (plus few rpm related fixes) and I was up and running. (wrong ppp for kernel-2.2.x - I commented out alias' in conf.modules as usual) The beginners package selection is going to be confusing. Maybe descriptive levels. Could be in documentation what you get for each level ( very general like newt install) 4) don't like the fact that ALL translations of man-pages and ISO were installed. Maybe this can be tagged to selected language? Should have man-pages as default. They're good to have. Just not all languages. 5) package installations times are off by around 50% extra. Newt install does fairly good job. Maybe comment at bottom should read: "Selected packages are now being installed." without the "..... should only take a few minutes" It took about 28 minutes for my install. 6) a few dependencies not installed (separate email) 7) latest initscripts doesn't run kdm so I changed prefdm - link to /usr/bin/kdm 8) work around for installing kdelibs (thanks) 9) first time all the way through using mouse. Looking better and better.....
